Ezekiel 28:16 meaning and explanation

By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

Ezekiel 28:16, Berean Standard Bible

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Ezekiel 28:16 belongs to a lament God tells the prophet to raise over the king of Tyre, a wealthy island ruler whose riches came from Mediterranean trade. The verse traces his ruin to that success: the abundance of his commerce filled him with violence, and he sinned.

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